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Help The right way to transfer files to new micro SDHC card?

Ayered

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I'm still running stock, but I'm rooted and have CWM. I already have all the stock stuff backed up (Nandroid, Titanium Backup, recovery, image and hidden).

I want to transfer the contents of the stock 2GB SD card to a new card with the least steps.

Does the stock Triumph card have an ext3 partition or is it only FAT32? If it's just FAT32, can I drag and drop copy all the files in Windows? If I do need an ext3 partition, what size should I make it?

If I take the old card out and put in a new one to format using the phone formatting utility, will the phone crash due to missing data stored on the old SD card? Or should I format the new card on my PC with SDFormatter?

I have the Android SDK installed on windows, if there's a simple command line backup/restore command with adb. I also have Linux running in a VM or could use a boot CD like gparted.

Thanks for your help.
 
I'm still running stock, but I'm rooted and have CWM. I already have all the stock stuff backed up (Nandroid, Titanium Backup, recovery, image and hidden).

I want to transfer the contents of the stock 2GB SD card to a new card with the least steps.

Does the stock Triumph card have an ext3 partition or is it only FAT32? If it's just FAT32, can I drag and drop copy all the files in Windows? If I do need an ext3 partition, what size should I make it?

If I take the old card out and put in a new one to format using the phone formatting utility, will the phone crash due to missing data stored on the old SD card? Or should I format the new card on my PC with SDFormatter?

I have the Android SDK installed on windows, if there's a simple command line backup/restore command with adb. I also have Linux running in a VM or could use a boot CD like gparted.

Thanks for your help.
I am pretty sure the "stock" SDHC is just plain FAT32.
I am runnung MIUI.
I copied all the files to my PC, then copied them to the different SDHC, put it into the phone and booted w/o any problems.
 
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I am pretty sure the "stock" SDHC is just plain FAT32.
I am runnung MIUI.
I copied all the files to my PC, then copied them to the different SDHC, put it into the phone and booted w/o any problems.

Just Copy and drag that's it

Nice, that's simple enough. Thanks guys.

EDIT: I made an Acronis image backup as well as a Windows copy backup on my PC. Then I just popped the new card in the phone and Windows copied the files back over USB. Everything seems to be working fine.

I checked the new card in the phone SD settings menu and it seemed to be formatted fine out of the package. Having a fresh card in there for a few minutes meant some background apps were already writing some files and folders to it. I just copied and replaced the backups over anything on the new card.
 
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